Petar Poparsov

Petar PopArsov was a Bulgarian revolutionary from Macedonia, one of the founders of The Committee for Obtaining the Political Rights Given to Macedonia by the Congress of Berlin from which, as Petar Poparsov says in his writings, later developed the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization , known prior to 1902 as Bulgarian MacedonianAdrianople Revolutionary Committees . His last name is sometimes rendered Poparsov or Pop Arsov. Scholars consider him a Bulgarian while in the Republic of Macedonia he is regarded as an ethnic Macedonian.

He was born in 1868 in the village Bogomila, near Veles, in a priest family, son of Arso, a priest, which with his brother, Andrej PopArsov, named his family as PopArsovi in their fathers name. He was one of the leaders of the student protest in the Bulgarian Mens High School of Thessaloniki in 18871888 where the main objective was to replace the East Bulgarian dialect with a Macedonian dialect in the lecturing. As a consequence, he was expelled along withother students. He managed to enroll in the philology studies program at Belgrade University in 1888, but because his resistance to Serbianisation, he was once more evicted in 1890.

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